Deep Dive Into Aortic Surgery: A Brief History of Aortic Surgery

Important milestone missed: the first repair of stab wound of the ascending aorta - Yustin Djanelidze, 1913. Alexi-Meskishvili VV, Konstantinov IE. Yustin Y. Djanelidze and the first successful repair of an injured ascending aorta. Tex Heart Inst J. 2000;27:113-6.

Prof. Tristan you have done an excellent brief history of aortic surgery. It may not seem so important, but it provides a good overview of thoracic aortic endoprosthesis. The most frequently cited article, "A Case of Distant Transfemoral Endoprosthesis of the Thoracic Artery Using a Self-Fixing Synthetic Prosthesis in Traumatic Aneurysm," was published by Volodos in 1988 in Grudnaia Khirurgiia; the article is only cited in Russian.